I wonder how you haggle with an AI

Actually this reminds me of the story a while back about how LLMs give better results if you threaten them with physical violence. Maybe that’s one way to get a cheaper ticket?

This is genuinely really classy

As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver

Is this a dealbreaker for people though?

Can AI reliably tell if a cat is longer than a banana yet?

Never heard “JAQing off” before, that’s good

Do you put that in a custom prompt, or save it for times when you really want a good result?

Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

Once set up I find it OK as a user

This story marks the loss of another revenue stream for Mozilla. Their business is increasingly reliant on Google’s search deal for money, and if that money stops, they’ll have to face that same reckoning. For example, they won’t be able to afford paying their CEO millions of dollars a year any more.

I think they should start repositioning themselves now as an activist organisation that is fighting corporate interests trying to control the internet. If they can do that, I think a lot of people would pay to use Firefox

Enough internet users are familiar with the adage “if a product is free, you are the product”, through personal experience

I’d be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they’d be able to make a stronger case for how they’re protecting a free internet

Mozilla should fire their non-technical staff, strongly make the case for how they’re fighting for a free and open internet, and use a subscription model for Firefox to pay the bills

OpenWrt with AdGuard Home is one option. Big fan of the former, haven’t used the latter

Devil’s advocate: would you use the present tense for the original Batman, or the original Star Trek?

I was suggesting using your own binhost as an alternative to distcc.
If someone’s considering distcc, presumably they’ve already decided not to use the public Gentoo binaries, and want to do the compilation themselves

I think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once.

One issue with distcc is some of the build operations can’t be delegated. If you want to minimise resource usage as much as possible (e.g. on old hardware) and want to compile yourself, then running your own binhost makes sense.

Or set up your own binhost

Keep a bishop hidden behind the toilet until your opponent forgets about it

Waiting for the George Costanza move

A few more good ones I found

Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia - Talichova komorní filharmonie
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale - London Symphony Orchestra

And free pest control!

I like the idea of automatically fastening zips in places with limited access (like the tent example in the article), but unless the failure rate is very low, you’d always need a backup fastening technique on hand

I haven’t searched about this so I don’t know, but it’d be cool if there were a way to import/export markdown tables into LibreOffice